Clipping:Talk of Detroit to the AA
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| Date | Wednesday, August 31, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Joe Pritchard's column] The Detroit Club oughto to be looked after by the American Association without further delay. The knock-down that the Wolverines received at the late meeting of the League has, no doubt, set the Detroit people to thinking, and whil ethey are in an unsettled state of mind it would be an excellent opportunity to invite them to join the American Association. President Wikoff ought to be empowered to act in this matter and he ought to open negotiations with the Detroit president without further delay. It will not do to be slow about this matter, but action must be taken imediately, and if the proposition thrown out by the Association is a good one, it's dollars to cents that the big left-handed crowd will be seen at Sportsman's Park next season. And what crowds they would draw. They would be a great card for the Association. The policy of the Association, however, seems to be to wait within their own doors until a crack club comes along and asks for admission. This is not business. If the Association wants the Detroits let the percentage system be adopted and then set the nets and the club will be landed high and dry. When the League wants any particular club they go after that club and they make propositions. If the first offer is not accepted it is followed by another and then another. There is no such thing as let up, and no such word as fail. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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